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SCON(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual SCON(1)
NAMEscon -- controls screen modes for pcvt video driver
SYNOPSISscon [-a] [-cscreenno] [-ddevice] [-fon|off] [-h] [-H] [-l] [-m] [-v]
[-V] [-slines]
scon [-v] [-ddevice] -pentry,red,green,bluescon [-v] [-ddevice] -pdefaultscon [-v] [-ddevice] -plistscon [-v] -ttimeoutscon [-v] -1 | -8DESCRIPTION
The scon utility controls several aspects of the runtime behaviour of the
pcvt vt220 driver.
The options are as follows:
-a Returns a string describing the video adaptor found by pcvt, the
string returned could be MDA, HGC, CGA, EGA, VGA or UNKNOWN.
-c Specify the screen number the current (displayed) screen should
be switched to.
-d Specify the device filename (i.e., /dev/ttyv2) further operations
specified on the command line should be applied to.
-f Some programs which silently assume 24 lines when they run on a
VT220 show incorrect behaviour when the terminal has really 25
lines. To support full VT220 behaviour, it is possible to force
pcvt to select only 24 lines when it is running in 25-lines pure
VT mode and/or in 28-lines HP-mode. The -f option requires one
additional parameter, the string 'on' or 'off' to switch this
mode for a virtual screen on or off respectively. This mode has
no effect if any other vertical resolutions are selected than the
two above mentioned.
-h Prints a usage/help text.
-l Lists the current configuration of runtime changeable options and
fixed parameters (such as the type of the adaptor, and in case of
a VGA adaptor, the Manufacturer, Chipset and 132 column support)
of the output portion of the pcvt driver.
-m Returns a string describing the connected display monitor type
found by pcvt, the string returned can be MONO, COLOR or UNKNOWN.
-v Specify verbose operation of the program.
-V Switch the specified/current screen into a pure VT220 mode with-
out recognizing any HP escape sequences and without displaying
function key labels.
-H Switch the specified/current screen into a mixed HP/VT220 mode.
That is, that in addition to the full VT220 emulation, the HP
function key labels and the escape sequences for handling the
labels are available to the user.
-s Specify the number of character lines on the screen. Possible
parameters are 25, 28, 35, 40, 43 or 50. To use all this screen
sizes, the fonts required for proper operation of a desired size
have to be downloaded to the EGA/VGA font ram. This option is
available only for EGA and VGA boards.
-p Modify VGA palette (DAC). The -p is mutually exclusive with -s,
-H, and -V. Naturally, option -p is available only for VGA
boards. Three flavors are available.
If used with argument ``default'', this flag will restore the
default palette (as installed by VGA ROM BIOS after hardware
reset).
If used with argument ``list'', the current VGA DAC palette
entries are listed. Each entry contains the table index, values
for red, green, and blue, and if there is a known name for this
entry, the color name. Trailing empty table slots (RGB values
all zero) are omitted.
Otherwise, four comma-separated arguments are expected. The
first denotes the number of palette entry to be modified. This
may be either a number between 0 and 255, or the usual name of an
associated color (case-insensitive). The following values for
red, green and blue are restricted to 0 through 63 due to VGA DAC
conventions. Note that the first delimiter within such an argu-
ment may be a colon ``:'' instead of a comma ``,'' for better
readability, but this violates common command argument conven-
tions. Multiple -p options may be specified if unambiguous.
-t Specifying -t will activate the screen saver. The behaviour
depends on timeout: if timeout is given as 0, the screen saver is
turned off. Otherwise, timeout is taken as a number of seconds
to wait until activating the screen saver. NOTE: the -t option
is only available if screen saver support has been compiled into
the driver!
-1 Sets 132 columns mode (only available on VGA adaptors).
-8 Sets 80 columns mode.
When switching between HP and VT mode, when switching the force 24 lines
mode on and off, or when switching between 80 and 132 columns operation,
the screen is cleared, the scrolling region is reset and the cursor is
placed in the home position.
EXAMPLES
The command ``scon -H-s28'' places the current screen into HP mode and
sets the screen size to 28x80.
Invoking ``scon -plightgray,0,15,0-p0:45,45,45'' will result in green
on gray output for normal text. Note that normal text color is light
gray, and not white as one might expect.
SEE ALSOcursor(1), loadfont(1), pcvt(4)BUGS
the -c and -d options collide somehow, this will change in a future
release.
FreeBSD 6.2 March 27, 2000 FreeBSD 6.2